Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA ruled for tenant in September 2019 and applied a six-year base date to the complaint based on HSTPA changes to the Rent Stabilization Law...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2016. The DRA ruled for tenant in October 2019, applying a six-year lookback period based on HSTPA changes to rent overcharge law. The DRA ordered landlord to...
Tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2010. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and won in part. The DHCR disallowed some of landlord's claimed individual apartment improvements (IAIs), which had been...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2015. She claimed that landlord fraudulently charged her, the first rent-stabilized tenant after rent control, a legal regulated rent of $1,900 per month and a...
Tenant complained of improper apartment deregulation and rent overcharge. She claimed that landlord improperly claimed excessive costs for individual apartment improvements (IAIs) in its Notice of Deregulation when...
Rent-controlled tenant complained of specific rent overcharge, based on increases to her garage parking charges. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the building parking space was an ancillary service only for...
Landlord applied for high-income rent deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2018. Tenants had admitted in their 2018 Income Certification Form (ICF) that their total annual household income was...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its Brooklyn building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation after Jan. 1, 1974. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost.
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation after Jan. 1, 1974. Landlord claimed it spent over $1 million to gut-renovate the...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to refuse renewal of tenant's rent-stabilized leases and/or proceed for eviction based on landlord's intent to demolish the building. The DRA ruled against landlord,...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify building services by replacing a building's metal key entry system with an electronic key fob system. The DRA ruled for landlord, as long as landlord complied with...
